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Lot 49
Stereoscopic viewer and 155 cards depicting topographical & architectural views (UK & worldwide), people, several interesting examples such as Santa Claus, Crystal Palace Photo Exhibition, and others, housed in a wooden case

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- Estimate£40 - £60
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £50
Lot 50
Victorian carte-de-visite album housing 48 photographic portraits, the album in crushed morocco with brass corners & clasps and central hand-painted plaque on wooden panel, the front pastedown bearing label for Asser & Sherwin, London, a gift inscription from Archibald Brown to Mrs Wheeler, 1 February 1865, and a loosely-inserted certificate for the marriage of John Wheeler & Mary Ann Bowcott

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- Estimate£50 - £70
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £55
Lot 51
Staffordshire History. An archive of vellum indentures & postal history comprising: an Elizabethan manuscript vellum Exemplification of a Recovery of Lands in Brockton & Stockton, Staffordshire, by Thomas Fford & William Fford, bearing Elizabeth I Privy Seal; a Commonwealth period indenture relating to land in 'Buorton & Cannock wood', manuscript vellum, 29 June 1653, headed 'The Keepers of the Libertie of England by authority of Parliament' and mentioning Oliver St John [Chief Justice of the Co

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- Estimate£500 - £800
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £300
Lot 52
Sir Henry Moore (1898-1986). Recorded interview on two reel-to-reel tapes, approximately 60 minutes in length, also converted to digital USB, tog. w/ photographs of Tittenhurst Park (where the recordings were discovered) taken during renovations in 1989, and architect plans/copies of drawings for a proposed home & recording studio for John Lennon on his private island, Dorinish Island, which appear Space Age and almost psychedelic in their design. The Henry Moore Foundation has very kindly ident

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- Estimate£1,000 - £1,500
- StatusUnsold
Lot 53
Women's History. Commemorative embroidered silk banner for German Unmarried Women & Virgins, 25th Anniversary, 8 May 1910. The banner is adorned with a lyre & laurel wreath on blue/purple velvet with wire tassels. Well-preserved with some general discolouration and fraying to the silk verso. 98cm

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- Estimate£200 - £300
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
Lot 54
An archive of postcards, Valentines, ephemera, manuscript notebooks and small educational publications collected during the life of Harriet Keele, nee Watson, of Highgate, London, and later Staffordshire

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- Estimate£200 - £300
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £140
Lot 55
Mau Mau barbed arrowhead with remnants of reed shaft, c. 1950s, approx. 14cm Provenance: Vendor hitch-hiked alone through Kenya during leave from National Service in 1959 and was picked up somewhere between Nakuru and Kisumu by a hydrologist. He dined & stayed with the hydrologist's family, and this arrowhead was one of the objects displayed on the walls. They explained that it had been fired into someone's stomach and had to be pushed right through the person's body due to the barbs. The hydr

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- Estimate£40 - £60
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £18
Lot 56
Cigarette cards in old album, Wills merchant ships, Godfrey Phillips aviation & footballers etc, some later 1930s gummed back types, approx. 600, album worn & lacks spine

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- Estimate£30 - £40
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £30
Lot 57
Postcards, approx. 150, inc. many of Brussels Exposition explosion

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- Estimate£30 - £40
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £15
Lot 58
19th-century scrapbook of embroidered samples, including sewing techniques, details such as button-holes, and an alphabet sampler. 8pp. (filled), brown paper covers bearing owner inscription, 'Martha Matthews, November 1839', some discolouration & creasing

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- Estimate£70 - £100
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £120
Lot 59
George IV embroidered sampler depicting a large house with trees, fences, dog and flowers, surrounded by a floral border. 'Hannah Biddulphs Sampler, Aged 8 Years July 23 1838', 53cm by 41cm, framed & glazed

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- Estimate£250 - £300
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £480
Lot 60
Fixtures of the Belvoir Hunt, London: Ackermann, n.d., miniature booklet listing places of meeting and accommodation for hunters & race horses, folding hand-coloured map (linen-backed), bound in gilt red cloth, together with another similar for Quorn Hunt (map only), and a Counties of England card game [probably Jaques, c.1910], comprising 57 loose cards, many with colour wood-engraved illustrations of landmarks or trades appropriate to the place depicted, some creasing & wear. Collection sold a

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- Estimate£40 - £60
- StatusUnsold
Lot 61
Shakespeare. A pair of solid brass bookends (weighing 9kg) depicting The Bard outside the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, commemorating its destruction by fire on 6 March 1926, registered design (727785 & 728785) held by S. H. Shakespeare, Hon. Secretary to the Golfers Competition Fund, Stratford-upon-Avon, 22.5cm height (2)

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- Estimate£80 - £120
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £90
Lot 62
Collection of Native American themed cigarette cards, including Allen & Ginter, Celebrated American Indian Chiefs, five cards (Bull Head, Clam Fish, True Eagle, Many Horns, Young Black Dog); British American Tobacco (B.A.T.) Indian Chiefs, part-set, 31 of 50, plus some duplicates; B.A.T. Types of North American Indians, four cards; Red Man Chewing Tobacco, American Indian Chiefs, nine cards; Allen & Ginter, United States Flags of the States and Territories, one card (Arizona); Duke's Cameo Cigar

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- Estimate£50 - £80
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £250
Lot 63
The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds, British & Foreign, by Blakston, Swaysland and Wiener, London: Cassell, [1877-80], complete with all 56 colour lithographic plates as called for (including frontispiece with protective tissue-guard), plus numerous wood-engravings within the text. Quarto, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, marbled boards. Contents generally good & bright, the plates vibrant, some pale spotting & marks, binding with wear around edges & splitting to joints, the mo

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- Estimate£80 - £120
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £160
Lot 64
Great Domesday Book, The Penny Edition, with silver coin - a penny of William the Conqueror, current at the time that Domesday Book was written in 1086 - set into the wooden board of Vol. I. Complete in six volumes, numbered 37 of 250, signed by Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and G. H. Martin, Keeper of Public Records, London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1986. Published in commemoration of the 900th anniversary year of Domesday. Comprising: facsimile f

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- Estimate£200 - £400
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £210
Lot 65
William IV scrapbook compiled by Lieutenant Joseph Rolfe of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 1830-32. Containing approximately 320 pages of newspaper clippings, plus several engravings including Loss of the Fame, East Indiaman, and His Majesty's Palace, Brighton. The clippings cover various subjects such as shipwrecks, smuggling, convict ships, horse racing, literature, ballads, riddles, famous figures of the day, and newsworthy events including the death of Princess Charlotte. There is also a 'speci

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- Estimate£200 - £300
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £200
Lot 66
Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds, first edition, first issue with 16pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, Autumn 1897, London: William Heinemann, 1898. Octavo, publisher's grey cloth lettered in black, publisher's advertisement for Six Shilling Novels to verso of half-title, viii, 303pp., 16pp. publisher's Autumn Announcements 1897. Contents very good, incredibly light spots/marks in places, untrimmed edges with some pages jagged from having been opened when uncut, endpapers with some genera

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- Estimate£1,000 - £1,500
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £1200
Lot 67
Milton, John. Paradise Lost, third edition, London: S. Simmons, 1678, bound with Paradise Regained, first edition, second issue [with "loth" on p.67], London: Printed by J. M. for John Starkey, 1671. Paradise Lost comprising title, two commendatory poems by S.B., M.D. [possibly Samuel Barrow] and A.M. [Andrew Marvell], a note on 'The Verse', the complete text (B-Y6), and one rear blank [of two]; lacking frontispiece. Paradise Regained comprising license, title, the complete text (B-P3), and omis

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- Estimate£1,500 - £2,500
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £1800
Lot 68
Aldin, Cecil. Mac, first edition, London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. Quarto, publisher's illustrated boards, complete with 24 colour lithographic plates, plus pictorial title and illustrated endpapers. The plates are well-preserved, clean, bright; text pages with some light spotting; binding with slight pulling at inner gutters, some bumping & wear to corners with slight loss to the tartan at spine; housed in a clear protective cover

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- Estimate£70 - £100
- StatusUnsold
Lot 69
Verne, Jules. Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar, first edition, translated by William H. G. Kingston, London: Sampson Low, 1877, original embossed cloth, worn, spine with some loss along top edge. Together with 12 other various books, quarto & octavo, sold with all faults (13)

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- Estimate£50 - £80
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £50
Lot 70
Literary Hoax. The Lost Diary of Christopher Columbus. [Seyppel, Carl Maria]. My Secrete Log Boke, Dusseldorf: Frz. Rangette & Sons, [c.1890-1900]. A spurious work purporting to be the log book of Christopher Columbus, which, according to legend, he threw into the sea during a storm, and which was found on the coast of Pembrokeshire 400 years later. Written in antiquated English, with paper and binding made to imitate in colour and appearance a volume damaged by exposure to seawater. Printed by

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- Estimate£70 - £100
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £250
Lot 71
Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf, fifth impression, London: Hurst & Blackett, 1939. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Contents good with some very pale spotting to page edges, half-title/frontis. detached but present, binding tight & square, cloth well-preserved with a couple of bumps

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- Estimate£50 - £80
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £55
Lot 72
Landt, Rev. G. A Description of the Feroe [Faroe] Islands with An Account of Their Situation, Climate and Production, London: 1810. Octavo, half-calf with marbled boards, re-laid & rebacked. Including folding map and two plates (one folding). Contents worn and discoloured, sold with all faults

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- Estimate£70 - £100
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £40
Lot 73
Dickens, Charles. All the Year Round, 1857-1873, odd vol years in ten bound volumes, parts mis-bound in places, 1857 parts follow 1860 in the same volume, some Christmas issues bound without wrappers, part serialisations of A Tale of Two Cities, and A Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, several parts in the volumes for 1860-61 but only parts 1-18 straggled over three volumes, late-19th century two-tone cloth boards, sold as found with all faults (10)

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- Estimate£200 - £300
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £120
Lot 74
Bindings. An extensive collection of decorative leather-bound books, predominantly C19, a few C18, inc. classics, novels & collected works, poetry, Victorian periodicals, history, educative texts, religion & theology, condition varied, some part-sets, sold as a collection of bindings with all faults, six shelves (6)

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- Estimate£300 - £500
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £750
Lot 75
Holy Bible with Book of Common Prayer, London: John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, Printers to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, 1678. Including separate title pages for Book of Common Prayer, Old Testament, New Testament, and Psalms, all dated 1678. Illustrated with numerous copper-engraved plates, including a frontispiece portrait of King Charles II facing title of Common Prayer. Bearing owner inscriptions of Philip & Mary Boteler, Bath, 1878, 'Bought at Pickerings,

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- Estimate£200 - £400
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £250
Lot 76
Lane, Edward William (transl.). The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, first edition thus, in 3 volumes, London: Charles Knight, 1839-1841, octavo, contemporary calf with morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Contents generally good & bright with pale spots in places, endleaves with heavier spotting, calf rubbed & worn around spines (3)

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- Estimate£200 - £300
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
Lot 77
Betjeman, John (Ed.). Shell Guide to Cornwall, first edition, 1935, 63pp., ring-binder card covers, worn, tog. w/ Devon, 1936, similar but less worn, light creasing, Derbyshire, 1935, edited by Christopher Hobhouse, all with maps & photo illustrations, and four poetry books by John Betjeman (7)

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- Estimate£50 - £80
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £90
Lot 78
Botany. A collection of 19th-century hand-coloured lithographs depicting bouquets of flowers, 24 plates in total, London: Paul Jerrard, n.d., in disbound half morocco covers. The colours are well-preserved & vibrant, some of the plates have marks & tears to edges, binding worn and detached. Together with a folio volume of reproductions of engravings designed for commercial use, Leipold Design, 1966 (2)

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- Estimate£50 - £80
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £120
Lot 79
Culpeper, Nicholas. Culpeper's Last Legacy, fifth impression, London: Robert Harford, 1676-77, contemporary calf, 276pp. plus index, followed by several sections with the pages numbered 1-60 with 15pp. publisher's catalogue, copper-engraved portrait frontispiece,p. 109 has loss to text at top edge with some pages loose & proud, pages holding but handled & marked in places, top board detached, collated complete

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- Estimate£100 - £200
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £230
Lot 80
Repton School & Roald Dahl Interest. An archive of books given as gifts to Sergeant W. A. Moughton, the second School Marshall at Repton, with gift inscriptions from grateful former pupils, including Roald Dahl, who has inscribed a copy of Broome Stages by Clemence Dane, 'To Sergeant Moughton, the man who never refuses to help, from Roald Dahl, 31/7/34.' It's clear that Moughton was well-liked, with messages such as this one from R. C. Evans, July 1928, 'In acknowledgement of innumerable service

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- Estimate£500 - £800
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
Lot 81
Miscellaneous collection of books to include a signed copy of A Change of Climate, by Hilary Mantel; a signed copy of The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, by A. S. Byatt; a slipcased Folio Society edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Lord of the Rings trilogy, by J. R. R. Tolkien, second revised editions, 5th & 6th impressions, 1970-71; several first editions inc. works by Mary Wesley; two fantasy paperbacks edited by Lin Carter; Folio Society edition of Dubliners,

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- Estimate£100 - £150
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £200
Lot 82
The Studio, Special Numbers, 40 volumes, 13 in publisher's embossed cloth, including Pen, Pencil and Chalk Drawings by Contemporary Artists, 1911; The Genius of J. M. W. Turner, 1913; Art in 1898, Art Nouveau covers; Special Winter Number 1900-01, and others, together with 21 other volumes by The Studio, most in later bindings, some with plates removed, sold with all faults (61)

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- Estimate£400 - £600
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
Lot 83
Sexton Blake Library. 362 magazines from No. 1, by John Hunter, Raiders Passed, with various writers inc. Anthony Parsons, Edwy Seales Brooks, Hylton Gregory and others, many with spine wear and some repairs, but generally good, approx. 35 without covers, 1940s-1950s, sold with all faults (362)

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- Estimate£150 - £200
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £110
Lot 84
Hare, Augustus J. C. The Story of My Life, in six volumes, London: George Allen, 1896-1900, publisher's cloth, tog. w/ South Eastern France, 1890, some spotting, sold with all faults (7)

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- Estimate£30 - £50
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £12
Lot 85
Christie, Agatha. The Mysterious Affair at Styles, first cheap edition, London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1923, publisher's cloth

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- Estimate£80 - £120
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £210
Lot 86
Pratchett, Terry. The Last Hero, signed & inscribed by the author, 'With heroic wishes', London: Gollancz, 2001, hardback with dust-jacket, well-preserved & bright

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- Estimate£40 - £60
- StatusUnsold
Lot 87
Jaguar E Type, Series 2, operating manual & service handbook, c. 1960, in original wallet, together with Aston Martin: A Living Legend (2)

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- Estimate£30 - £50
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £65
Lot 88
Warwickshire & Warmington Interest. Manuscript ledger, 1860-61, recording the clients & charges of a shoe repairer; a Lawyer's Diary, 1855, with ms entries relating to meetings & leisure in Warks; the will of Thomas Hawkin, shoemaker, Warmington (3)

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- Estimate£50 - £80
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £55
Lot 89
Holy Bible, prepared & arranged by D'Oyly & Mant, in three volumes, Oxford: Clarendon, 1817, quarto, straight-grain morocco, all edges gilt. Together with The Book of Common Prayer, by Mant, Oxford: W. Baxter, 1820 (4)

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- Estimate£50 - £80
- StatusUnsold
Lot 90
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, three-volume auction catalogue, New York: Sotheby's, 1997, softcover, housed in slipcase

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- Estimate£50 - £100
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £20
Lot 91
Johns, Capt. W. E. Collection of ten Biggles books, to inc. Biggles Breaks the Silence, first ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1949; Biggles Gets His Men, first, Hodder, 1950; Biggles in Mexico, first, Brockhampton, 1959; Biggles and the Missing Millionaire, first, Brockhampton, 1961, and others, condition varied as found, sold with all faults (10)

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- Estimate£40 - £60
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
Lot 92
Les Miserables, cinema programme [c.1913], including cast, orchestra, plot, and list of matinees around the UK at venues owned by the Provincial Cinematograph Theatres, Limited. Octavo, 16pp., publisher's paper wrappers (priced one penny) with portrait of Victor Hugo, eight illustrations within the text of characters & scenes. Generally well-preserved & bright considering its ephemeral nature, occasional light handling marks, slight wear & loss to paper covers, later inscription on cover

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- Estimate£50 - £80
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
Lot 93
Tymms, W. R. & Wyatt, M. D. The Art of Illuminating as practised in Europe from the Earliest Times, first edition, London: Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, 1860. Quarto, 104pp., pictorial title & half-title, 100 lithographic plates, publisher's elaborate gilt cloth. Contents generally good & bright, the plates vibrant, most with protective tissue-guards, occasional handling marks and slight wear to some page edges, some pale spotting to text pages, sympathetically rebound incorporating ori

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- Estimate£80 - £120
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
Lot 94
Kipling, Rudyard. Collection of seven books comprising: Kim, London: Macmillan, reprinted November 1901; Just So Stories, Macmillan, reprinted 1902; The Jungle Book (x2), Macmillan, 1899 & 1910; The Second Jungle Book, Macmillan, 1908; Captain Courageous, Macmillan, 1908; Kipling's Verse, Inclusive Edition, fourth edition, Hodder & Stoughton, 1929, all in publisher's cloth. Together with How Green was my Valley, by Richard Llewellyn, first edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1939. Condition varied,

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- Estimate£50 - £80
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
Lot 95
Pratchett, Terry. The Carpet People, first edition, London: Colin Smythe, 1971. Octavo, publisher's cloth, unclipped dust-jacket, protective mylar cover. Contents good, clean, bright, neat owner inscription, dust-jacket well-preserved with some faint creasing and chipping at edges

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- Estimate£300 - £400
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
Lot 96
Folio Society. Collection of slipcased literary classics & historical works, to inc. two deluxe morocco bound volumes sealed in original cellophane, Apocrypha and Michelangelo, a few others sealed in cellophane, tog. w/ three coffee table books (55)

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- Estimate£200 - £300
- Winning BidN/A
- StatusCLOSED!
- Realised Price: £400

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